Laura Hidalgo-Downing

List of John Benjamins publications for which Laura Hidalgo-Downing plays a role.

Titles

Performing Metaphoric Creativity across Modes and Contexts

Edited by Laura Hidalgo-Downing and Blanca Kraljevic Mujic

[Figurative Thought and Language, 7] 2020. xi, 346 pp.
Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics

Metaphorical creativity across modes

Edited by Laura Hidalgo-Downing and Blanca Kraljevic Mujic

Special issue of Metaphor and the Social World 3:2 (2013) v, 137 pp.
Subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics

Articles

This article explores the way in which social media and its relation to mental health is metaphorically conceptualized in newspaper opinion discourse. We discuss the extent to which metaphoric expressions are used creatively and whether they convey positive or negative evaluations. For this… read more | Article
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Hidalgo-Downing, Laura and Laura Filardo-Llamas 2020 Chapter 4. Singing for peace: Metaphor and creativity in the lyrics and performances of three songs by U2Performing Metaphoric Creativity across Modes and Contexts, Hidalgo-Downing, Laura and Blanca Kraljevic Mujic (eds.), pp. 71–96
This chapter explores how metaphoric creativity contributes to shaping and recontextualizing ideological and socio-political practices in three songs by U2, “Sunday, Bloody Sunday”, “Please” and “Peace on Earth”. The contextual motivations of metaphoric creativity are analyzed by exploring three… read more | Chapter
The present paper presents the results of a corpus study of evidential and epistemic strategies as stance markers in two subgenres of scientific discourse, a sample of semi-formal publications (New Scientist) and one of expert publications (PubMed). First, an onomasiological approach to… read more | Article
Hidalgo-Downing, Laura, Maria-Ángeles Martínez and Blanca Kraljevic Mujic 2016 Multimodal metaphor, narrativity and creativity in TV cosmetics adsExploring Discourse Strategies in Social and Cognitive Interaction: Multimodal and cross-linguistic perspectives, Romano, Manuela and Maria Dolores Porto (eds.), pp. 137–158
The present article explores the interaction between multimodality and narrativity as a discourse strategy which promotes creativity as a socio-cognitive process in British TV cosmetics ads. Multimodal TV ads narratives are structured visually and aurally by means of the extended metaphors light is… read more | Article
Hidalgo-Downing, Laura 2014 The role of negative-modal synergies in Charles Darwin’s The Origin of SpeciesEvaluation in Context, Thompson, Geoff † and Laura Alba-Juez (eds.), pp. 259–280
This chapter explores the role of negative-modal synergies in the expression of authorial stance and intersubjective positioning in Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species. As markers of stance, both negation and modality contribute to the expression of evaluation in discourse, though little… read more | Article
Hidalgo-Downing, Laura, Raquel Hidalgo Downing and Angela Downing 2014 Strategies of (in)directness in Spanish speakers’ production of complaints and disagreements in English and SpanishThe Functional Perspective on Language and Discourse: Applications and implications, Gómez González, María de los Ángeles, Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Francisco Gonzálvez-García and Angela Downing (eds.), pp. 261–284
This article presents the results of a study carried out with Spanish University students on their use of strategies of (in)directness when expressing complaints, disapprovals and disagreements in English and Spanish. We adopt a role-play eliciting procedure for the collection of what a speaker… read more | Article
Hidalgo-Downing, Laura and Blanca Kraljevic Mujic 2013 Special issue on metaphorical creativity across modesMetaphorical creativity across modes, Hidalgo-Downing, Laura and Blanca Kraljevic Mujic (eds.), pp. 133–139
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Hidalgo-Downing, Laura and Blanca Kraljevic Mujic 2013 Multimodal metonymy and metaphor as complex discourse resources for creativity in ICT advertising discourseMetaphor and Metonymy revisited beyond the Contemporary Theory of Metaphor: Recent developments and applications, Gonzálvez-García, Francisco, María Sandra Peña-Cervel and Lorena Pérez-Hernández (eds.), pp. 157–181
In this paper we carry out a study of multimodal metaphors in a corpus of 52 ICT advertisements published in English-speaking magazines during the period 1999–2002. The general theoretical framework adopted for this purpose is a combination of text world theory and of a multimodal approach to… read more | Article
Hidalgo-Downing, Laura, Blanca Kraljevic Mujic and Begoña Nuñez-Perucha 2013 Metaphorical creativity and recontextualization in multimodal advertisements on e-business across timeMetaphorical creativity across modes, Hidalgo-Downing, Laura and Blanca Kraljevic Mujic (eds.), pp. 199–219
In this article we explore the creative recontextualization of JOURNEY, WAR, RACE and SPORTS metaphors and discuss their manifestations in multimodal ICT advertisements across time. Our objectives are to discuss (i) the choices of metaphors and related source domains used to describe (e)businesses… read more | Article
Hidalgo-Downing, Laura and Blanca Kraljevic Mujic 2011 Multimodal metonymy and metaphor as complex discourse resources for creativity in ICT advertising discourseMetaphor and metonymy revisited beyond the Contemporary Theory of Metaphor: Recent developments and applications, Gonzálvez-García, Francisco, María Sandra Peña-Cervel and Lorena Pérez-Hernández (eds.), pp. 153–178
In this paper we carry out a study of multimodal metaphors in a corpus of 52 ICT advertisements published in English-speaking magazines during the period 1999–2002. The general theoretical framework adopted for this purpose is a combination of text world theory and of a multimodal approach to… read more | Article
Hidalgo Downing, Raquel and Laura Hidalgo-Downing 2007 Metadiscursive and interpersonal values of pronominal topics in spoken SpanishFunctional Perspectives on Grammar and Discourse: In honour of Angela Downing, Butler, Christopher S., Raquel Hidalgo Downing and Julia Lavid-López (eds.), pp. 327–348
This paper presents a discussion on the interactive and textual functions of pronominal marked topics in spoken Spanish. The study is a continuation of an empirical analysis based on Marcos Marín’s Corpus oral de referencia de español contemporáneo (Marcos Marín 1992), in which we have examined the… read more | Article